Michael Marra has been elected leader of Scottish Labour after defeating Joe Fagan by 4,266 votes to 2,485, taking charge of the party following its worst Holyrood result of the devolution era.
Charlotte Mercer · 3 min readJohn Swinney has predicted that Andy Burnham will be the last prime minister of the United Kingdom as the SNP leader intensifies pressure for another Scottish independence referendum.
Charlotte Mercer · 5 min readJohn Swinney, Rhun ap Iorwerth and Michelle O'Neill are expected to meet in Cardiff on Monday as nationalist leaders prepare a joint declaration on self-determination and the UK's constitutional future.
Charlotte Mercer · 3 min readAndy Burnham has sparked a fresh Scottish independence row after saying another referendum would not take place unless majority public support emerged, prompting the SNP to claim the Prime Minister had shifted his position.
Charlotte Mercer · 3 min readJohn Swinney's Scottish Government has demanded a Scottish Visa, Rural Visa and Scottish Graduate Visa just a day after publishing its draft legislation for another independence referendum.
Charlotte Mercer · 6 min read